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Current TV, the earnest-but-little-viewed cable channel founded by Al Gore, has announced the new title for its version of Countdown With Keith Olbermann: It will be called Countdown With Keith Olbermann. It launches June 20.
If there’s news in the new/old title, I suppose you could interpret it as a signal of purpose for the new show: …
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Donald Trump, the reality-show judge who is not running for President but would very much like you to believe that he is—see my colleague Alex Altman’s explanation as to why—went on Anderson Cooper 360 last night to enable America to pay attention to him on TV. The show had done a yet-again …
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Parks and Recreation has for some time been the best and most hilarious comedy on TV. It is now also the most tasty. In last week’s “Soulmates,” Ron Swanson, asked by Chris if he had ever had a turkey burger, replied: “Is that a fried turkey leg inside a grilled hamburger? If so, yes. …
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I’m back from vacation! And just in time—sigh—to catch a week’s worth of buildup to the wedding of two highly privileged people who hold no actual power in my country. (Nor, really, in their own.) The wedding of Bonnie Prince Smiley and Commoner Kate, the Best Person in the World, …
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Before you read this post, make sure the kids aren’t getting up to any mischief, get a plate of horse jerky, then settle in to watch last night’s episode of Game of Thrones:
The pilot episode of Game of Thrones set up a lot of background, characters and situations, but it also organized itself around three core stories in which …
Tyler Perry’s latest film looks to continue his streak as the most powerful star whose movies most American moviegoers have never seen
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Forty years ago, a crew of cameras parked itself in the living room of a California family—the Louds of Santa Barbara—to record their lives. Forty years ago, this was still considered an unusual situation in America. An American Family, which ultimately aired in 1973, may have been on PBS and had serious documentary ambitions, but …
The movie is a flashback to Hollywood’s midcentury, when sentimental best-sellers routinely became films of high purpose
The Restrepo director was both a soldier among frontline photographers and a missionary with no dogma but to give people the look and feel of the wars their governments wage in their name
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It was Music of the 21st Century night on American Idol. Which means anything recorded in the past decade — or maybe the distant future, when the tiniest and most delicate Canadian pop stars will beam viral music videos directly to your brain! Who channeled the fierce urgency of now? Who set Idol back a hundred years? Click the pix to …
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I interviewed George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels on which HBO’s Game of Thrones is based, in Santa Fe last month. Parts 1, 2 and 3 posted here earlier. This last excerpt didn’t really fit anywhere in my piece on Game of Thrones, because it digresses into GRRM’s personal biography and how it influenced his …
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I interviewed George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels on which HBO’s Game of Thrones is based, in Santa Fe last month. Parts 1 and 2 posted here earlier. In this excerpt, GRRM talks about the learning experience of working for a decade in TV, and, yes, about his opinion of the ending of a certain other …
